Improvement in producing- gas for heading and lighting



T; G. SPRINGER.

Burner Attachment for Gas Machines.

" Patented May 4, 1869.

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Letters Pmt No. 89,802, dated Ma 4, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, 'I. G, SPRINGER, of Clinton, in

' the county of Clinton, and in the .State of Iowa-have invented certain new and useful' Improvements in which gas is generated from gasoline, or other suitable fluid, and consists in connecting the heaters with the generating-chamber, instead of at a point above the mixing or air-chamber, as heretofore practised; also in filling the generating chaniber with plaster Paris, or other suitable material, having a series of perforations or holes; and, also,in providing-the tube ab oye th e generating-ch amber at 'as'iiitable' primates an inside funnel-shaped tube; all of which will be hereinafter fully set forth. 7

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to make. and use the same, I

will now proceed to describe its construction and oper-.

ation, referring to the annexed drawings, which form a partof this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of the tube and burner;

Figure 2, aside view of the burner; and

Figure 3, a cross-section of the generating-chamber.

A represents the lowerportion of the tube leading from'the reservoir in which the'gasoline is contained.

'Ihelowerehd of said tube is bent in a horizontal shape, and to the other-end of which the burner B is attached. I

In the horizontal portion of the tube A, thegas is generated from the gasoline by the heat from the flame in the upper end of the burner,

Usually this heat has been communicated by wings or heaters connected-to the burner at or near the upper end, but as the gas cannot, by such. means, become sufficiently heated to;ove'rcorne the cold air passing up with the gas through the mixing or air-chamber in the burner, the light would be feeble in a greater or less degree. Even in cold rooms, the heat would, in some instances, not ,be sufiicient' to" generate any gas at all.- I

To overcome this diificulty, I connect the'wings or heaters O O with the end of theburner below the mixing-chamber, where the said burner is attached to the tube, thus, in fact, communicating the heat direct to the gencrating-chamber.-

By this means the generating-chamber will at all times he hOtenough to generate gas, and the gas itself will be, soto say, superheated, so as to overcome the coldness of-the atmosphere while passing through the mixing-chamber in the burner.

The horize'ntalportion of the tube A, the whole or part of which constitutes the generating-chamber, is

filled with plaster Paris, or other suitable material,

perforated, as shown in fig. 1, by which'a larger amount of heating-surface is obtained than when said chamber is notjso filled, thus increasing both the quantity and qualitypf the gas generated.

D represents the stop-cock for regulating the flow of gasoline from the rcservoir.

Just below this stop-cock I insert a small funnel:

" shaped tube, a, through which the gasoline flows.

In the machines heretofore used, when a certain amount of gas has been generated, the upward PI'BSS", ure of the gas and the downward pressure of the gasoline invariably cause a flickering, unsteady light, but. I

by using the tube'this is entirely remedied, as, it will be seen, the gasoline passes downward, entering the tube a at its wider end, and passes out through the narrower end, while the upward pressure of the gas has only the small, narrow end of said tube to act upop; hence the pressure fromabove overcomes or counteracts the pressure of thegas upward, making a steady. light. 7

Having thus fully described my invention,

j What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is T 1. Connecting the wings or heaters of a gas-burner with the generating-chamber, or at some'point between the generating and the mixing-chambers, substantially as and for the purposes herein'set forth.

2. Filling the generating-chamber of a gas-machine with perforated plaster Paris, or its equivalent, sub- 

